On 27 Feb 2014 at 22:00, Helmut Walle wrote: > Volker Kuhlmann wrote, On 27/02/14 11:27: > > Metric was useable numbers with decimal point and imperial something > braindead, wasn't it? Looks like you go it the wrong way round.
Aviation in NZ uses an illegitimate units hybrid: feet and flight levels for altitude, both km and nautical miles distance, hPa for pressure, °C for temp, knots for speed. Let's not get into compass references... Gliding has introduced me to a few open source projects that are developed on GNU/Linux platforms. XCSoar is released on several target platforms including Android and Linux (Kobo). Wanting to test and contribute to four of these projects gave me the motivation to move one box at my office to Debian, and begin some Android development. This gave me a start on the GNU/Linux learning curve that now includes other projects as diverse as: - vinyl sign cutting with Inkscape, - data extraction from PDFs with Python and pdfminer, - embedded development with gcc-avr tools, - a Raspbian NAS to protect our photos, music and backups on an external USB drive from inadvertent Win32DiskImager (or dd) cock-ups, but let's not go there... - When my son got a new PC last year my edict was "odds and evens": GNU/Linux OS (LinuxMint was chosen) must be used on odd numbered days and he can use Win7 on even numbered days. I think a switch to SteamOS is coming soon... I haven't fully let go the WinXP apron strings as I'm still well tied to PMail, Palm Desktop and clients who use M$ Office and Visual Studio. > It's called sarcasm (mixed with a good portion of "Germany lecturing > everybody else on how things ought to be done"). I appreciate sarcasm as a high form of wit and tip my hat to those who master it in other than their native language. I'm very used to the (German) XCSoar maintainers providing "succinct" and accurate directives about how things *shall* be done. I'm sure no offence is intended and is only taken by those of us who are sometimes "too polite to be honest". > there is an emulation of the 48GX that runs on Linux, and a variant for > Android is also available (Droid48), and that, too, is Linux-based. Having made the jump to RPN on an HP-28S "a while ago", I'm delighted with Droid48. I'm content with WinXP/PalmOS, but times have changed and I've learned that Linux/Android can be a compelling utopia and possibly an opiate. Cheers Neil _______________________________________________ Linux-users mailing list [email protected] http://lists.canterbury.ac.nz/mailman/listinfo/linux-users
